Hippolyte Cailloux

Hippolyte Cailloux (1773-1841) was a Colonel of the French Army who led the French 67th Regiment of Militia during the Napoleonic Wars.

Biography
Hippolyte Cailloux was born in 1773 in Roanne, Loire Department, in the Kingdom of France. Cailloux enlisted in the French Revolutionary Army in 1791 at the age of 18 and was made a Sergeant of a battalion of Loire militia. On the Rhine front, Cailloux took part in Jean Victor Marie Moreau's battles against the Imperial Habsburg armies and was promoted to Lieutenant in 1797. Cailloux was made the colonel of the French 67th Regiment of Militia in 1806 when Marshal Joachim Murat ordered the recruitment of a new infantry regiment, and he commanded the regiment at the Battle of Glogau. Cailloux later fought in the battles in Poland and Russia in 1806-1812, and he died in 1841.